Looking for a new car under $20,000? Good luck. Your choice has dwindled to just one vehicle
Looking for a new car under $20,000? Good luck. Your choice has dwindled to just one vehicle
Just five years ago, a price-conscious auto shopper in the United States could choose from among a dozen new small cars selling for under $20,000.
At a time when Americans increasingly want pricey SUVs and trucks rather than small cars, the Mirage remains the lone new vehicle whose average sale price is under 20 grand — a figure that once marked a kind of unofficial threshold of affordability. With prices — new and used — having soared since the pandemic, $20,000 is no longer much of a starting point for a new car.
This current version of the Mirage, which reached U.S. dealerships a decade ago, sold for an average of $19,205 last month, according to data from Cox Automotive. (Though a few other new models have starting prices under $20,000, their actual purchase prices, with options and shipping, exceed that figure.)
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"Average sales price" what a shitty headline, but hey gotta soak that karma somewhere.
Consumers are choosing expensive vehicles and companies are responding. Stop blaming everyone else but the rampant over spending on features.
You poor bastard.
When your choices are made for you, you have no choice.
Blah blah blah, everybody but my own fault. You do have a choice. Instead of buying the model with 50 different features, you can buy the one with plain cloth and 5 inch shitty screen. But you won't because you want ACC, heated seats, and cameras everywhere.
Edit:
Shipping all the Mitsubishis for sale.
Big "millennials and their avocado toast" energy
Lol apparently having AC in your car is a privilege and not a basic feature... It's 2023 and it's just getting hotter, I want AC sorry
Pretty sure AC is standard in most (all?) cars sold here so I expect he'll start trashing us for "spending extra" on motorized windows next
No car comes with AN OPTION for AC. He is kinda right you know. No car on the market has equipment so basic it would be unlivable. All come with central locking ac, electric windows, ps, most come with cruise. I can see drivetrain options, but spending 19 grand optioning up a Mirage is just mad.
Find me a new vehicle without AC. Oh right, you're just making shit up to make it seem like you have a point 👌
According to Kelly Blue Book you are correct:
Barring an unexpected last-minute change, every mainstream car available for sale in the United States for the 2023 model year will come with standard air conditioning. That’s a first.
The last holdout was, unsurprisingly, the Jeep Wrangler. For the 2022 model year, buying a brand-new Wrangler without A/C is possible.
I'm actually surprised there was one still left last year.
Oh God I realized you literally have no idea what ACC is and you think it's AC 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Confidentlyincorrect material right there 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What is inaccurate? Care to speak up about what you think I'm wrong about here? You don't think I can go out and find you a list of base model cars for under 20k?
That's the core of your argument. Why wasn't that the very first thing you did?